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From: KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch")
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Subject: Names
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 21:59:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 21:59:16 1986
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    From: mcgeer%ji@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Rick McGeer)

    By longstanding tradition, dating back to Galileo, the discoverer of
    celestial bodies has the right to name them.

  Actually, Galilieo's names for the moons of Jupiter (the only things
I can think of that he named) were NOT accepted.  He named them after
the Medici's, a ruling family in Italy at the time.
  Similarly, Herschell's name for Uranas was not accepted - he wanted
to name it for George the Third.
								...Keith